On Monday February 23 2004 10:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Monday February 23 2004 8:43, Sean Shanny wrote:
> >> *LOG:  received smart shutdown request *
> >> *FATAL:  the database system is shutting down
> >> FATAL:  the database system is shutting down
> >> LOG:  server process (PID 4691) was terminated by signal 9
> >> LOG:  terminating any other active server processes
> >> LOG:  statistics collector process (PID 361) was terminated by signal
> >> 9
> >
> > Looks like it got a SIGTERM, which is what you might get if someone
> > shutdown OSX (osx pls gurus correct me).
>
> Uh, no, signal 9 is SIGKILL not SIGTERM.  I'm not aware of any automatic
> mechanism in OS X that would issue SIGKILL against a Postgres backend.
> Certainly Postgres itself would not.  Some Linux kernels issue SIGKILL
> to get out of out-of-memory situations, but I believe OS X to be better
> behaved than that.

Uh, no, I didn't say signal 9 is SIGTERM.  Isn't a "smart" shutdown request 
an indication of a SIGTERM?  I'm just speculating about what happened, but 
isn't that what you'd see during a system shutdown?  The kernel sending 
SIGTERMs?



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